Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Putting the Movement Back into the Labor Movement with Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is a...
Topics: Samantha Winslow, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor Notes, labor movement, Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes,...
Building Bridges National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!: Special Report from Venezuela on May Day with William Camacaro, of the NYC Bolivarian Circle reporting from the barrios of Venezuela, where he has brought a delegation of U.S. people to observe the situation on the ground and deliver to the Venezuelan people the message that ‘we the people’ oppose the U.S. Government’s empire aggression and intervention. While Venezuela’s economic...
Topics: Juan Guaido Venezuela, Venezuela coup, Venezueala may day, Venezuela U.S. imperialism, Nicolás...
Building Bridges Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg This is the right time to talk about why we need a new economic system and how to get there. This is the time to talk about and build socialism here and around the world . To meld practice and theory on this question are Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary, of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (“SAFTU”), founded in 2017, and which is the second largest of the country’s main trade union confederations , with at least 21...
Topics: Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), Gar Alperovitz, Democracy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Growing Nuclear Risks in a Changing World: New Thinking and Movement Building with Joseph Gerson who serves as AFSC’s disarmament coordinator, as director of programs in New England, and as director of the Peace and Economic Security Program. Joseph plays a leading role in building collaborations among...
Topics: nuclear disarmament treaty, nuclear war Trump, nuclear arms race, Joe Gerson AFSC
ICE Terrorizes Immigrant Women Workers, Arresting More Than 280 in Largest Workplace Raid in a Decade, Leaving Families and Communities Devastated! with Felix Villalobos, Managing Attorney, RAICES, the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas. and Maria Yolisma Garcia, President, North Texas Dream Team More than 280, predominantly women, immigrant workers were detained after a workplace raid on an electronics repair company in Texas. The raid was the largest since Trump took...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israeli elections, ICE workplace raid Texas
RIP Medical Debt! As medical costs rise to unspeakable levels, so does un-payable medical debt, but we can stop the hemorrhaging and save the patient. with Co-Founder and Director/Education and Outreach RIP Medical Debt Jerry Aston and comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host John Oliver Medical debt has destroyed the financial stability of large segments of Americas most vulnerable communities: the sick, the elderly, the poor, and veterans. It also...
Topics: Medical debt, Jerry Aston medical debt, RIP Medical Debt, healthcare, Medicare for all
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., April 1, 2019, 7 - 8 pm EST **************************** "Let Them Eat Cake" Says Social Services Giant, CAMBA’s $484,000 A Year CEO, Joanne Oplustil, To Workers Who Have To Go On Food Stamps To Take Parental Leave! with striking Camba Legal Service (“CLS”) Workers Forced to the picket-line and chanting “no contract, no peace, overworked and over stressed - working at...
Topics: Camba Legal Services Union, DC 1707 pre-school teachers protest, Prof. Milton Allimadi, Cyclone...
Its a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and Karine Raymond, RN NYSNA .Second Vice President, Montefiore Medical Center The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street...
Topics: New York State Nurses Association, NYSNA, Safe Staffing Nurses, Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez NYSNA
It’s a Matter of Life and Death: Thousands of New York Nurses Take to the Street In Threat of Major Strike Over Horrendous Working Conditions Which Seriously Impedes Patient Care with Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN , NYSNA President, Montefiore Medical Center and NYSNA members The 42,000 strong members of the New York State Nurses Association have been fighting for safe staffing, to keep hospitals open for care, to stop the Wall Street attack on their patients, and win healthcare for...
Topics: NYS Nurses Association Safe Staffing, Spectrum strike cooperatives
Spectrum Cable Strikers At Two Year Mark Keep On Keeping On & Are Even Looking Into Forming A Workers' Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise with Troy Walcott, Local 3 IBEW Shop Steward and striking Spectrum Technician and Ray Reyes, striking Spectrum technician Some 1,800 workers represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (“IBEW”), Local 3 struck Charter Spectrum Communications (“Spectrum”) , the company which bought out Time Warner Cable in May...
Topics: Local 3 IBEW, Charter Spectrum union busting, Cuomo Charter Spectrum, de Blasio Charter Spectrum,...
Building Bridges National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Israel's War Against the Palestinians and It's Exportation of Weapons of Global Pacification with Jeff Halper, is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification We the people must break the old taboo on US-Israeli relations and Washington's permanent acquiescence in Israel's illegal...
Topics: Jeff Halper Israel and Palestine, Jeff Halper weapons, Jeff Halper policing
Daniel Ellsberg responds to the unjust jailing of whistleblower Chelsea Manning Daniel Ellsberg, the most important whistle-blower of the 20 th century, whose exposure of government lying and whose courage and sacrifice to reveal that truth to the public worked to end the heinous war in Viet Nam talks about one of the greatest whistle-blowers of the 21 st century, Chelsea Manning who paid dearly for her expose of government lies in Afghanistan, Iraq and torture in Guantanamo and served 7...
Topics: Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, whistleblowers, freedom of the press
“U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!” . Maria Luísa Mendonça, director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil . Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who currently serves as co-director of Popular Resistance . Roger Wareham, Secretary General of the International Association Against Torture and member of the December 12 th Movement " There is a great provocation led by the U.S. empire now in Venezuela. There's no doubt the world that it's President...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump,...
The Politics of Immigration with Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson have been writing since 1990 about immigration, labor, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Their articles have appeared in Truthout, NACLA Report on the Americas, MRZine, The Huffington Post , and other publications. For over twenty years, they co-edited Weekly News Update on the Americas, an English-language bulletin covering grassroots news from Latin America. Guskin also edited a companion publication , Immigration News...
Topics: Politics of Immigration, Jane Guskin and David L. Wilson, Trump immigration, Trump wall,...
No to U.S. Orchestrated Coup in Venezuela! No to Trump Imbuing Himself with the Power to Decide the Leader of a Sovereign Country! WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? with Marc Weisbrot, is co-director with Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy. and Kevin Zeese, a lawyer and political activist who has worked on a wide range of issues beginning with ending the...
Topics: Venezuela U.S. coup, Maduro coup, Trump Venezuela coup, Venezuela economic sanctions Trump
We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Federal Workers Don’t Have To Be The Sacrificial Lambs for Trump’s Political Hijinks to Fund His Wall! with Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32BJ, SEIU "Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for? Go back with Fierce Urgency of NOW to talk with your Locals and International unions about ...
Topics: Hector Figueroa government shutdown, Hector Figueroa immigration reform, Trump government shutdown,...
The Revolutionary Martin Luther King: Confronting the Triple Evils of Racism, Wealth Inequality, Militarism! Stone monuments and tributes can’t adequately commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King. Genuine recognition of the man requires that we resolve to carry on his legacy of resistance to discrimination, the widening wealth divide, and war. Amidst terrible...
Topics: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Sales Rev. King, Dr. Clayborne Carson
Gender/Race & Poverty in America: How the politics of welfare makes us sick and tired of being sick and tired! Whatever Fannie Lou Hamer was talking about soon became an impassioned plea for a change in the system that exploited the Delta’s African-Americans. “All my life I’ve been sick and tired,” she shakes her head. “Now I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) who stood tall against the brutality, indignities,...
Topics: Gender poverty, women poverty, race poverty, Felicia Kornbluh poverty, welfare reform
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Criminalization of Poverty in America with Professor Peter Edelman, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law...
Topics: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Peter Edelman, Poverty U.S., Bail bonds
Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white...
Topics: civil rights, judicial misconduct, Rev, Al Sharpton, Suffolk County
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Unions to Trump: âPay your hotel workers fair wages and recognize our union!â with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 As far as Nevadaâs unions are concerned, hotel mogul-turned-Republican president elect Donald Trump should put his money where his mouth is, and pay his hotelâs workers in Las Vegas fair and living...
Topics: Driscoll boycott, San Quintin farmworkers, Baja California farmworkers, Ed Rosario LACLA, Al Rojas...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Public Housing Tenants Hung Out To Dry In Wake Of Sandy When Hurricane Sandy slammed NYC, tens of thousands of public housing tenants were left without power, heat, and running water; elderly & disabled residents were trapped on the upper floors of the developments, oftentimes lacking food and water and life essential medical needs. Weeks after the wind roared and...
Topics: New york city housing authority and Sandy, public housing and Sandy, superstorm Sandy, Red Hook...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* Whatâs At Stake: The Supreme Court Ruled on Two of the Most Important Worker-Rights Cases In itâs History with Nicole Berner, SEIU Associate General Counsel and Richard Blum, Employment Law Project The Legal Aid Society Join us and our experts to analyze two of the most significant decisions by the Supreme Court ever regarding workers rights. The U.S. Supreme Court...
Topics: Hobby Lobby, Harris v Quinn, Supreme Court workers rights, public employees fair share fees, public...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Americaâs not Broke. Not even close. Tax the Rich Overall average individual wealth in the United States has risen 23 percent since the year 2000, to $236,213 per American adult. But, wealth has become incredibly more concentrated. We are taxing the dollars that go to our ever-richer rich at levels far below the tax rates that America levied just a few decades...
Topics: Meizhu Lui, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community Economic...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Prison Inmates Hunger Strike for Their Lives with . Delores Canales, member of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (Cfasc), Advisory Board of CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) and LWSGI (Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention), mother of a Pelican Bay SHU prisoner and . Carol Strickman, attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, member of the Prisoner Hunger...
Topics: California prison hunger strike, Delores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary...
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, October 13, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (59 minutes) **************************************** Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day with Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet Indigenous People mark the anniversary of Columbus' voyage, to use the occasion to reveal the historical truth about the invasion & the consequent genocide and environmental destruction and then to organize against its...
Topics: Colombus Day, Native Americans, Indigenous People's Day, Economic Crisis, William Greider, Francis...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trump Las Vegas Hotel Workers Say Heâs Anti-Worker. Heâd Rather Say âYOUR FIREDâ than Allow Workers to Unionize! with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Luis Carlos, Banquet food server, Trump Hotel Las Vergas After a resounding âYESâ vote to unionize with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, Trumpâs Hotel Las...
Topics: Trump hotel union, Culinary workers union, Ronald Reagan 1948, Trump union, Trump NLRB, Hotel...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Bridges, Not Walls! â A Building Bridges Democratic Convention Special With Deborah Burger Co-President, National Nurses United and Larry Hamm, veteran activist, Chairman the Peopleâs Organization for Progress With her selection of Gov. Tim Kaine as her running mate Hillary Clinton reinforced her determination to run a traditional political campaign...
Topics: National Nurses United Bernie Sanders, Nurses Nurses United DNC, Deborah Burger DNC, Larry Hamm...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trumpâs Continuing War on Immigrants With Justin Flores , Vice President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director at the National Domestic Worker Alliance Carlos Jimenez, Executive Director Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO While a Federal Appeals Panel unanimously rejected President Trumpâs bid to reinstate his ban on travel...
Topics: Trump immigration executive order, Justin Flores farm labor immigration trump, Andrea Cristina...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., March 13, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 26, 2015, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. Fired McDonald's Workers File Civil Rights Suit Claiming Racial Discrimination with Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project Several McDonaldâs workers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company alleging a âwidespread pattern of racial and sexual discrimination and harassmentâ at some stores. The suit, filed in the U.S....
Topics: Cuomo budget, green party Cuomo budget, Howie Hawkins Cuomo budget, Virginia McDonaldâs civil...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept 26, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** The Real Deal: we the people, wonât allow our voices to be drowned out by âReality TVâ staged debates that exclude our true concerns - weâll be there to tell it like it is! featuring We the People Amidst the mass mediaâs hoopla promoting of and selling the Clinton/Trump debate, as though it were a heavy weight boxing championship weâll bring you the real...
Topics: rikers island, fight for 15 clinton-trump debate hofstra, close rikers
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash *********************** From Ferguson to Staten Island Building Resistance to Police Terror with Michael McPhearson, Ex. Dir. of Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Arguably the most significant uprising in many years in this country, in response to the...
Topics: Ferguson Missouri, Michael McPhearson, Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:23 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Workers Protest Puerto Ricoâs Governor âs Lay Off Of Tens Of Thousands with Benjamin Borges, Executive Director, Public Service Workers United of Puerto Rico (Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico) Council 95, AFSCME One hundred thousand marched in San Juan to protest the recent firing of10,000 workers by prostatehood Governor Luis...
Topics: Puerto Rico Unions, AFSCME Council 95, Governor Fortuno, Benjamin Borges, Puerto Rico layoffs, Law...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ************************* Forty Years Since King: Struggling to End Racism, Sexism, Poverty, and War with Dr. Clayborne Carson,author & editor of several books about the civil rights struggle in the US, including "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr." Dr. Carson joins us to take stock of the legacy of Dr. King and how we, standing at the crossroads of change...
Topics: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, civil rights, Memphis Sanitation Strike
Building Bridges over WBAI radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., March 24, 2014, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. Taking the Pulse on Immigration Reform for 2014? featuring Oscar Chacon, Ex. Dir., National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities Coalition Will there be immigration policy reform in 2014? The answer, sadly, seems unlikely - at least not the kind of reform that would result in solid, forward-looking public policy. But, having coming to that...
Topics: Newark Schools Crisis, Larry Hamm, People's Organization for Progress, Immigration Reform, Oscar...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** A Free, Free Palestine Remains The Question featuring, Jeff Halper, an anthropologist, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, lecturer about Israeli politics, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is best known as the co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He is a supporter of...
Topics: Jeff Halper, Omar Barghouti, Boycott Divestment Sanctions Israel, Palestine, Israeli Committee...
BUILDING BRIDGES: YOUR COMMUNITY AND LABOR REPORT PRESENTS A Conversation with Harry Belafonte âA Conversation with Harry Belafonteâ is a wide ranging interview focusing on Mr. Belafonteâs life and his views on union rights, civil rights, the role of the media and social change. We believe that this will be an excellent choice for programming for the Thanksgiving Holiday or for any day. Mr. Belafonte has been called the consummate entertainer, an artist in every field in which he has...
Topics: Harry Belafonte, Building Bridges, civil rights
Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:59 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** "The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times and Legacy of Joe Hill - American Labor Icon" with author William Adler Labor Day, marked the day for the release of The Man Who Never Died. This book presents new evidence of Joe Hill's innocence of the murder for which Utah executed him in 1915. It also names the likely...
Topics: Bill Adler, William Adler, The Man Who Never Died, Joe Hill, I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the...
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December 29, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 57 minutes **************************************** The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz With Yosvany Terry, Composer, Educator, Musician The music of acclaimed Cuban composer and saxophonist Yosvany Terry provides an unmistakable milestone in the often illusive unfolding of modern Jazz - Black classical music. He creates a...
Topics: jazz and Africa, Jazz and Cuba, Yosvany Terry
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (58 minutes **************************************** NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead? with James Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It" Employers cut 159,000 jobs in Sept.. It was the biggest monthly decline since 2003 and new evidence of a strengthening recession. The NYC financial industry,...
Topics: economic crisis, New York State economy, Colombia trade unions, Afro-Colombians
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:32 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres Free After 30 Years In Prison with Carlos Alberto Torres A discussion with Carlos Alberto Torres, free from behind bars after 30 years. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy - conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of The United States over Puerto Rico. Torres was punished for being...
Topics: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Independence, Carlos Alberto Torres, imperialism, U.S. colonies, Lolita...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., July 4, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** US Celebrates Its Independence Day After Imposing Junta to Rule Puerto Rico with Rafael Bernabe, candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for the Partido del Pueblo Trabajador (PPT) 2012; professor and director of the Federico de OnÃs Hispanic Studies Center at the University of Puerto Rico at RÃo Piedras; economist; and who has published three books including...
Topics: Frederick Douglass July 4, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Gerald Horne, Amereican Revolution...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Out In The Union: A Labor History Of Queer America with Mariam Frank, author Against the backdrop of the historic ruling of the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal in all the states of this union and in furtherance of addressing the numerous other inequities faced by LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people Miriam Frank, Prof. of Humanities at New York...
Topics: Miriam Frank, LGBTQ and unions, Labor History of Queer America, Ban the Box NYC. Criminal Records...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, August 20, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** Hunger Strikers Sew Lips Shut In Protest Against General Motors Colmotores With Rafael Angel Jimenez, Association of Sick and Fired Workers of General Motors Colombia (ASOTRECOL) Workers injured in the General Motors Colmotores assembly plant sewed their lips shut on August 1, 2012, as part of a...
Topics: Association of Sick and Fired Workers of General Motors Colombia, Slaughter At S. Africaâs...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Teach the Children Well: The Battle for Public Education featuring Diane Ravitch, one of the foremost authorities on education in the U.S., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, âwhistle-blower extraordinaire,â author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and...
Topics: Diane Ravitch, New York State Budget Education, standardized testing Diane Ravitch, Charter schools...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Monday, April 18, 2011, 7 â 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org ****************** Just A Cutting & A Slicing: Bloomberg Seeks To Eliminate Subsidized Day Care with GL Tyler, Political Action Director, DC 1707 Mayor Bloomberg, is attempting to eliminate nearly 17,000 infants and toddlers from safe, quality and affordable day care. The âEducation Mayorâ is...
Topics: Mayor Bloomberg, day care, child care, DC 1707 AFSCME, G.L. Tyler, NYC budget
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done? with William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor The so-called recovery of the US economy has not...
Topics: Bill Spriggs AFL-CO, African American unemployment, African American poverty, Home attendants New...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, April 23, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street With OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99% With Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP,...
Topics: ACT UP N.Y., financial transactions tax, aids, Bloomberg education, New York Communities, RWDSU...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Ainât I A Woman: how twenty-years after Bill Clinton pulled the safety net from under predominantly poor women and children theyâre left to sink to deeper destitution with Felicia Kornbluh is associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and womenâs studies at the University of Vermont and president of the faculty union, United Academics. Sheâs author...
Topics: President Clinton Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare and poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and welfare,...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition 27:05 Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** What Is To Be Done? A Conversation about Organizing and Strategies to Win With Stanley Aronowitz, studies labor, and social movements, and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Heâs authored or edited twenty-five books including: "Left Turn: Forging a New...
Topics: Stanley Aronowitz, Manny Ness, labor movement, unions, working class, May Day, unions New York...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** As the saying goes, âsome thing's rotten in Denmarkâ & weâve figured out what it is, why itâs the Trumpian tax plan! featuring Dean Baker, formerly was an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He is currently a co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. When Trump said that âthe...
Topics: Trump tax plan, Dean Baker Trump taxes, taxes and economic growth Dean Baker, Center for Economic...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:46 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's Crippling Jobs Crisis with Andy Kroll, Assoc. Editor, TomDispatch and reporter at Mother Jones magazine The Labor Department released the latest figures on unemployment and payrolls - the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, and...
Topics: Andy Kroll, TomDispatch, Cornel West, black unemployment, african american unemployment, jobs...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* AFL-CIO To Banks: Pay to Create Jobs You Destroyed in the âGreatâ Recession with Dan Pedrotty, Director, Office of Investments, AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis, pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform...
Topics: Dan Pedrotty, banks, Wall Street, financial reform, unemployment, infrastructure, jobs program,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** The Poor Peopleâs Campaign Is Picking Up Steam with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber president of Repairers of the Breach. An author, preacher, and professor, he is chief architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement and The Poor Peoples Campaign and Rev. Graylan Hagler, senior pastor at the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in...
Topics: Poor peopleâs campaign, Rev.William Barber, Rev. Graylan Hagler, poverty U.S.
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:58 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Woodlawn Cemetery Alive with Union Protests With Chis Silvera, Secretary Treasurer Local 808, Teamsters And Local 808 Woodlawn Members - the Band of Brothers . Todd Brown . Alex Coss . Enrique Coss Landscapers at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where 6 Mayors and jazz legends like Celia Cruz, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington are buried, protested at the...
Topics: Chis Silvera, Secretary Treasurer Local 808, Teamsters, Todd Brown, Alex Coss and Enrique Coss,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Will Obama Stop The Supreme Courtâs Gallop To The Right with Theodore Shaw, former Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he litigated civil rights cases at the US Supreme Court, and former trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice On the retirement of Justice John Paul...
Topics: Supreme Court, Theodore Shaw, John Paul Stevens, NAACP, Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Obama...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** NYC Taxi Drivers Caravan to Albany to Protect Full-Time Jobs with Bhairavi Desai, Ex. Dir. NY Taxi Workers Alliance A traffic jam of taxicabs circled the Capitol in Albany to put the brakes on legislation sponsored by ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which allow people to pick up passengers in their own cars. NYC would be required to accept drop-offs...
Topics: Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers Alliance, Uber, precarious jobs, taxi regulation New York State,...
The I Am Troy Davis Campaign To Abolish the Death Penalty with * Kimberly Davis, Troy's sister * Jen Marlowe, author I Am Troy Davis * Eve Ensler, playwright, activist * Yusef Salaam, Central Park 5 and death penalty abolitionist * Lawrence Hayes (death row exonoree) * Rebel Diaz, RAP cultural worker, activist Two years ago, the state of Georgia ignored the facts, doubts and pleas of hundreds of thousands of people and killed Troy Davis. Now on the anniversary of his execution we invite you to...
Topics: Troy Davis, Death penalty, Jen Marlowe, I Am Troy Davis, Eve Ensler, Yusef Salaam, Lawrence Hayes,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up with . Sean Crawford, a Flint resident and auto worker whose great grandfather was Vice Chair of the Flint sit-down strike . Claire McClinton, Member of Flint Democracy Defense League It's like living in "some sort of a dystopian novel," Sean Crawford writes, "to find National Guard troops going door to...
Topics: Flint Water Crisis, Flint emergency manager, Sean Crawford, Claire McClinton, Flint Democracy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Getting Serious About the Next Economic System With Gar Alperovitz, author, What Then Must We Do? and The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism and State Socialism In an era when systemic critique of the economic and political institutions of the United States is poised on the edge of mainstream consciousness: the realities of a changing...
Topics: Ed Whitfield, Fund for Democratic Communities, Southern Grassroots Economies Project, Gar...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** Health Care, Who Cares? With The Coalition against Privatization of GHI and HIP Protesters massed outside the Manhattan offices of GHI after a proposal to convert GHI and HIP to a for-profit status. This would adversely affect 4 million GHI & HIP subscribers state- wide, including 500,000 NYC public employees. It will mean higher...
Topics: Israel, Palestine, national health care
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:22 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Occupy Wall Street Occupies The Brooklyn Bridge As Tens Of Thousands Say Weâre Here To Take Back The Wealth We Created And They Covet And Control! With The 99% Angry and reeling from the horrific military attack which Bloomberg perpetrated on peaceful, sleeping protestors fighting for economic justice in our increasingly unjust and...
Topics: Occupy Wall Street, the 99%, Mayor Bloomberg, occupy eviction, wealth distribution
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27' Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** NYC Students Stand Firm After CUNY Police Bully Them During Occupy City Univeristy of NY (CUNY) Protest Over Tuition Hikes With l Occupy CUNY Student Members Hector Agredano & Emma Francis-Snyder l Barbara Bowen, President of CUNY Professional Staff Congress Students, faculty, Occupy CUNY and OWS demonstrated outside Baruch College to...
Topics: Occupy CUNY, Occupy Wall Street, Barbara Bowen, CUNY Professional Staff Congress, AFT, tuition...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** What's Ahead for More than One-Million who Just Lost Unemployed Benefits , the Unraveling of the Safety Net and Planning for Job Creation, to Address Income Stagnation and Wealth Inequality with Richard Eskow, Senior Fellow, Campaign for Americaâs Future The unemployment insurance program provides laid-off workers with a fraction of their old salary for a fixed period of time while the search for a new...
Topics: Unemployment compensation benefits, unemployment, Richard Eskow, food stamps, SNAP, wealth...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Attica, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy! with Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood In The Water Although much has been written about the take over and ensuing assault on the Attica prison by state police and national guard troops some four days later which resulted in the murder of forty three individuals, including ten...
Topics: Mass incarceration civil rights, Heather Ann Thompson, Blood In The Water, Attica Uprising
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:30 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate and litigator, author Alexander offers a bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control. âJarvious Cottonâs great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was...
Topics: new Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, drug arrests, war on crime, civil rights, African American males
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., April 11, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** Vulture Hedge Funds Circle on Higher Ground as Puerto Rico Drowns in Debt with University of Puerto Rico Prof. Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl, Working People's Party spokesperson and candidate for the Governor of Puerto Rico, and noted co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century A History since 1898 Puerto Ricoâs fiscal perils are currently in the news. It is an...
Topics: Larry Hamm Bernie Sanders, Peoples Organization for Program Bernie Sanders, Rafael Bernabe Puerto...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., August 13, 7 -8 pm EST streaming @ www.wbai.org/playernew.html smartphone streaming @ http://stream.wbai.org & to listen, or download archived shows www.wbai.org/server-archive.html **************************** Under the banner âFight the Rightâ residents mobilized against hate to protest white nationalists and white supremacists âUnite the Rightâ rally in D.C. with Rev. Greylan Hagler, an African-American...
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Topics: puerto rico bankruptcy, Uber New York City, fight the right
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Working for an Economy, By the People, for the People with Professor Stanley Aronowitz Stanley Aronowitz is the director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the CUNY Graduate Center, a distinguished professor of sociology and urban education, author of 23 books , and ran for governor of New York in 2002. He is one of the great public intellectuals of our times. Author of 23...
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Topics: Stanley Aronowitz, Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the CUNY Graduate...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 26:58 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Will President Obamaâs Overhaul Of Healthcare Be More Than A Band-Aid with Oliver Fein, President, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Dr. of Internal Medicine, the Weill Cornell Medical Center and David Himmelstein, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Univ. and Co-Founder Physicians for a National Health Program President Obama...
Topics: health care, single payer, medicare for all, physicians for a national healthcare program, Dr....
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, February 6, 2012, 7- 9 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Michelle Alexander, human rights activist, litigator, best-selling author Racism is rampant. The Mayorâs, the NYPDâs policing policies and practices, that resulted in the killing of an unarmed Rahmarley Graham, 18 years...
Topics: New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ************************* Farm Labor Organizing Committee -Building on Victories With Baldemar Velasquez, President,Farm Labor Organizing Committee Building on the recent victory organizing over 7,000 guest workers in a agreement with the North Carolina Growers Association, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is continuing its campaign to organize 20,000 RJ Reynolds tobacco...
Topics: farmworkers, immigration
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
